Under Angels Wings… November 4, 2010

Someone’s reflection on hajj (from a past winter retreat) – Under Angels’ Wings Can our tongues ever speak again, even one lie, When we have spent one night in adhkaar under a Makkan sky? Can our eyes ever be dazzled by dunyaa’s tapestry, When the ka’bah has filled them with its majesty? Can we ever put haraam against our lips, When the [...]

‘ilm is jealous November 4, 2010

The righteous, wise and knowledgeable have said: “‘ilm is jealous – when you give some of your self to it – it does not give you much in return, but when you give all of your self to it – it reveals the best of itself to you”

Ring of the Dove October 28, 2010

[http:///www.amazon.ca] Ibn Hazm al-Andalusī - On the Nature of Love … Allah Himself says, “It is He that created you of one soul, and fashioned thereof its spouse, that he might find repose in her” (Koran VII I8g). Be it noted that the reason God assigns for man’s reposing in woman is that she was made out [...]

What we all pursue… October 28, 2010

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pursuit_of_Happyness] Below is an intro session from a past Retreat on Tazkiyat al-Nafs (Purification of the Soul).  The Shaykh begins by discussing “…the pursuit of every human being… from the righteous to the wicked… the pursuit of happiness“. Words from the works of Imam Ibnul Hazm and Imam Ibnul Qayyim (rahimullah ta’ala jamiyun) on achieving true happiness are [...]

The Alchemist, ‘iraadah & himma June 9, 2009

Lately i’ve been marinating over a book that’s over 20 years old, holds the Guinness World Record for ‘most translated book by a living author’, and has sold 65 million copies, in 67 languages, in over 150 countries  - [www.chapters.ca] Accolades aside,  it’s really a book on ‘iraadah & himaa – will, aspiration & goals… If read [...]

‘rizqtu hubbaha’, ‘zamilooni, dathirooni’ June 8, 2009

Many years after she passed away – Rasulullah, sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam, spoke of his love for his wife Khadija, radiallahu anha, with the following: “She believed in me when the people disbelieved in me, she trusted me when people said I was not trustworthy, and she gave me her money when people prevented me – [...]

The Alchemist, Narcissus & ‘ujjub June 8, 2009

The following is an interesting story of Narcissus, on narcissism: ‘ujjub in Arabic, or excessive self-love… I have my own theory on the end of this version of the story – as it appears as the prologue to The Alchemist, an allegorical novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho – [www.amazon.ca] PROLOGUE Translated by Clifford E. Landers [...]

Unrequited Love and Shifa… June 6, 2009

  Shaykh Hamza told one of the most beautiful stories on love and unrequited love during the RIS Knowledge Retreat last winter in Toronto, Canada: “… she also was very generous – Bareerah was a woman that she purchased and then set free, and the famous story about Bareerah was that she was married to [...]

HOME – documentography June 6, 2009

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“I killed her hope for me… my hope for her…” June 5, 2009

Ahmad ibn Sa’id al-Abid related that his father had told him the following: ‘There was once with us at Kufa a young man much given to devotional practices, who used to stay in the Friday mosque and hardly ever leave it.  Since he had a fine face and bearing, and a pleasant manner, he was [...]